Featured Scholar: Jeff Wilson, PhD
Associate Professor and Chair
Department of Geography, IU School of Liberal Arts
Jeff Wilson, Department of Geography in the IU School of Liberal Arts, focuses his translational work in environmental planning and management at both the state and local levels. The Greenways research project provides data regarding the use of public trails using infared monitors in the most comprehensive trail monitoring system in the United States. Using models to estimate traffic on proposed trails, practitioners can design cost effective trails and estimate safety improvements such as additional stop lights.
This research has also provided data indicating property values on or near trails actually increases contradicting a publicly held belief that trails are bad for local neighborhoods. This translational research effort has received national attention from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation which is interested in the correlation between obesity, public health and urban design.
The Greenway project is another example of how IU Indianapolis's faculty are TRANSLATING their RESEARCH INTO PRACTICE.
Selected Publications in IU Indianapolis ScholarWorks
With several research works contributed to IU Indianapolis's free, open access repository, Dr. Wilson has made translational research knowledge available to professionals, researchers, students, and communities around the world.
Priest, C., Knopf, A., Groves, D., Carpenter, J. S., Furrey, C., Krishnan, A., … Wilson, J. (2016). Finding the Patient’s Voice Using Big Data: Analysis of Users’ Health-Related Concerns in the ChaCha Question-and-Answer Service (2009–2012). Journal of Medical Internet Research, 18(3), e44. https://hdl.handle.net/1805/9780
Aniruddha Banerjee PhD, Vijay Lulla PhD, Jeffrey Wilson PhD, and Philip Troped PhD. 2016 April 8. Relocating Bike-Kiosks to Maximize Ridership – A Weighted Matching Optimization Problem. Poster session presented at IU Indianapolis Research Day 2016, Indianapolis, Indiana. https://hdl.handle.net/1805/9670
Vijay Lulla PhD, Jeffrey Wilson PhD, Aniruddha Banerjee PhD, Philip Troped PhD. 2016, April 8. The Indiana Pacers Bikeshare Program – An Opportunity to Explore Research Questions in Geography, Transportation, and Public Health. Poster session presented at IU Indianapolis Research Day 2016, Indianapolis, Indiana. https://hdl.handle.net/1805/10359
Wiehe, S. E., Kwan, M. P., Wilson, J., & Fortenberry, J. D. (2013). Adolescent Health-Risk Behavior and Community Disorder. PloS one, 8(11), e77667. https://hdl.handle.net/1805/3852
Anthony Bozzo and Dr. Jeff Wilson. (2012, April 13). ACCESS TO SERVICES FOR THE HOMELESS. Poster session presented at IU Indianapolis Research Day 2012, Indianapolis, Indiana. https://hdl.handle.net/1805/7456
Karen Frederickson Comer, MLA, Sarah Wiehe, MD, MPH, Jeffrey Wilson, PhD, Brian Dixon, MPA, and Shaun Grannis, MD, MS. (2011, April 8). Spatial Integration of Community Data with Clinical Data in Support of Community Health Research and Practice. Poster session presented at IU Indianapolis Research Day 2016, Indianapolis, Indiana. https://hdl.handle.net/1805/10812
David J. Bodenhamer, Director, Jeffrey Wilson, Co-Director, and Karen Frederickson Comer, Coordinator. (2010, April 9). IU Indianapolis Center for Health Geographics. Poster session presented at IU Indianapolis Research Day 2010, Indianapolis, Indiana. https://hdl.handle.net/1805/11258
David A. Ford, Director, David Bell, PI, “Networks of Heterosexual Risk and HIV” (NIH) Daniel P. Johnson, PI, “Decision Support through Earth Science Research Results” (NASA), Wan-Ning Bao, China Studies Workgroup, Jeanette Dickerson-Putman, IU Indianapolis-Moi Workgroup, Wendy Morrison, Health Research Workgroup, John Parrish-Sprowl, Global Health Communications Center, Jeffrey Wilson,GIS Research Center and Center for Health Geographics, James Wolf, Survey Research Center. (2010, April 9). The Institute for Research on Social Issues. Poster session presented at IU Indianapolis Research Day 2010, Indianapolis, Indiana. https://hdl.handle.net/1805/11251
Johnson, D., J. Wilson & G. Luber. 2009. "Socioeconomic indicators of heat-related health risk supplemented with remotely sensed data." International Journal of Health Geographics, 8, 57. https://hdl.handle.net/1805/3292
Wiehe, S. E., Carroll, A. E., Liu, G. C., Haberkorn, K. L., Hoch, S. C., Wilson, J. S., & Fortenberry, J. D. (2008). Using GPS-enabled cell phones to track the travel patterns of adolescents. International journal of health geographics, 7(1), 22. https://hdl.handle.net/1805/5456
Payton, S., Lindsey, G., Wilson, J., Ottensmann, J. R., & Man, J. (2008). Valuing the benefits of the urban forest: A spatial hedonic approach. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, 51(6), 717-736. https://hdl.handle.net/1805/3779